Qualification: Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
Unit: Unit 3.1: Understand the value of play in Early Years
Learning outcome: 4 Understand different types of play for all children
Assessment criteria: 4.1 Describe benefits of: physical play, creative play, imaginative play, sensory play
Advertisement
- Benefits of physical play
- Develops gross motor skills
- Strengthens muscles and bones
- Physical health (e.g. cardiovascular functions, stamina etc.)
- Develops social and language skills
- Increases confidence
- Allows expression
- Benefits of creative play
- Develops fine motor skills
- Develops problem solving skills
- Develops social and language skills
- Self-expression
- Benefits of imaginative play
- Expression of emotions
- Develops problem solving skills
- Opportunities to mimc actions and language of others that they have observed
- Develops social and language skills
- Benefits of sensory play
- Opportunities for exploration
- Develops fine motor skills
- Opportunities to learn about the properties of different objects
Advertisement